attitudinize

The cause requires a youth to "stalk, and bustle, and attitudinize;" and he clearly thinks this is all the youth before him wants to do, whether conscious of the fact or not.

From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Mrs. Sutherland Orr

A jay would alight in the entrance of the hole and flirt and peer and attitudinize, and then flyaway crying "Thief, thief, thief!" at the top of his voice.

From Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers by John Burroughs

A jay would alight in the entrance of the hole, and flirt and peer and attitudinize, and then fly away crying "Thief, thief, thief," at the top of his voice.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Charles Dudley Warner

To be a "conteur," to figure in "proverbs," to attitudinize, to produce a "sensation"—all these are purposes of ambition in foreign circles.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various

One of the rare women who never pout or attitudinize, she could fling her glove gracefully—one might add, capturingly under every aspect, she was a handsome belligerent.

From The Amazing Marriage — Complete by George Meredith

While two yellow-robed girls stood sentry-like at each side of the chancel, Miss Schirmer postured, gestured and attitudinized.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was soon landed by the stalwart Martha and Alec, and, while he attitudinized for draining, the Professor amused himself with taking an instantaneous photograph.

From Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 by Various

Goethe knew he was drawing his portrait, and attitudinized accordingly.

From Hyperion by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Turning and smiling over her shoulder, she bent and swayed and attitudinized.

From Maida's Little Shop by Inez Haynes Gillmore

He was a languid, good-looking youth of three-and-twenty, who assumed blasé airs and attitudinized for their benefit.

From Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag by Louisa May Alcott

With deft tonal shifts and acrobatic attitudinizing, Pinchot charges in at a pace rather fast for audiobook narration, but perfectly matching Kidd’s hyperkinetic prose.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2022

Dixon’s direction of the white actors’ performances exposes the dual meaning of the term “bad actors”: the officials’ fat-cat presumptions and facile attitudinizing are mocked in the characters’ exaggerated B-movie cadences.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 20, 2018

New musicals on Broadway today are mostly audience-pleasing machines manufactured from cultural spare parts: a movie screenplay, a rock songbook, the self-conscious attitudinizing of late-night comedy.

From New York Times ● May 21, 2011

Wars in Liberia, Nigeria, Afghanistan and Libya — the world's open wounds — were vocation destinations for this English photojournalist, whose pictures had the impact of stark truth stripped of political attitudinizing.

From Time ● Apr. 21, 2011

Whereas here, these men in their tight-fitting and uncomfortable uniforms, were attitudinizing and indulging in that military form of gallantry, which may be picturesque but certainly looks most uncomfortable.

From L.P.M. : the end of the Great War by J. Stewart (John Stewart) Barney